Pew Research Center released a new report about religious “nones” that found that 28 percent of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated. Sixty-three percent described their religious beliefs as “nothing in particular,” while the rest identified as either atheist or agnostic.
When exploring the nature of the beliefs more specifically, it was found that many of the unaffiliated describe themselves as “spiritual” and don’t deny there is some sort of higher power.
While the vast majority claimed morality to be unattached from religion, there is no denying the lack of societal consensus on what constitutes morality.
In the past, cultural mores represented morality as it was unilaterally understood. Now, there is cultural and political chaos — in large part driven by disagreement over basic ideas that never used to be controversial.
As Russell Kirk said, “at heart, political problems are moral and religious ones.”
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A contributor for The American Spectator, Grace Reilly is a senior at Grove City College, where she is a marketing fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. In her role as a fellow, she is the host of the Post-Roe America Conference Series and Meet the Scholars and co-host of the Liberty Mail podcast. Grace has appeared on Fox News, Newsmax, and America’s Voice News, in addition to a variety of podcasts, radio, print, and television in her home state of Connecticut. Follow her on Instagram @conservativegrace and on Twitter @conservgrace.
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